C & A This week

[jimmy]

Hi all,

Yep its me, Mr dissapear everynow & again. :razz:

Not sure if its been done or not but, good letter in this weeks C & A Paul, top stuff mate :wink:

PS, I do have a sneaky look every now & then so keep it clean Kenny :razz:

[kenny]

hiya jimmy
glad to see you have paid us a visit you should do it more often ,as we have missed your posts in the couple of weeks you have been away.yes you are right paul did have a good letter printed in this weeks c&A a touch of retribution there for someone posting a letter that didnt make any sense

ken

[jimmy]

for someone posting a letter that didnt make any sense


Hi Ken,

Couldn't agree more mate, anyone that is posting, cannot make sence :p

PS, check ya email for a couple of good songs :lol:

[jimmy]

:-P :-P You wait :razz:

Next time on BBIA, You're gonna be talking about lizard eggs :lol:

[kenny]

hi mate
i am not going on now as you will make j w hate me and i could not stand it!

ken


p.s. i have to have something to help my sausages!

[jimmy]

Thats the trouble with you maltese people.

No balls :-P

Are you up late, might call you later :wink:

[kenny]

hi mate
very funny!maltese indeed !
yes i will be up late!

ken

[laurab]

Hi Jimmy

Good to see you are on top form :lol:

[kenny]

hi laura
he only comes on here to upset me!


ken

[jimmy]

Hi Laura,

Hope you & Roger are well.

Will you be staying at the same hotel again as me in stafford in October.

If you are, can you bring that picture of Kenny again, i've got a couple of cats coming in to my garden and i need something to frighten them off :shock:

[Waxbillman]

welcome back jimbo

i was only thinking today that the BBIA have assimulated you into their collective mind of eccentricity, glad to see you back, and as nutty has ever, how is chav land these days?

Matthew

[jimmy]

Hi Matt,

their collective mind of eccentricity

Well above me Matt, havn't got a clue what you mean :grin:

Chav land is fine mate, West Ham have just signed two of the worlds best players and Essex boys were voted the most sexiest geezers by a Sunday sport readers poll. As allus :razz:

Hope you are well matthew ( 2 T's)

[Waxbillman]

:-o bet they get the most bloody annoying accents though!!

"a sunday sports poll" oh wow Jimmy that must mean its true that some naff paper ses it, yeh right, papers allus lie!

Matthew :-P

[jimmy]

that must mean its true that some naff paper ses it, yeh right, papers allus lie!


The Sunday Sport is a proper paper geeze :-P , the last time i read the Yorkshire Daily Post the headline was " Whippet steals a pair of socks from Betty Bigumbum's mid terraced former miners house, Betty said " Them whippets are allus pinching my socks", I rest my case Matthew (2 t's )

[Waxbillman]

:lol: those dam whippets, they never caught them you know

Matthew (with 2 T's and rightly so)

[chris]

Hi Jimmy,

nice to see you back

Chris:razz:

[jimmy]

Hi chris,

Hows things mate :wink:

I started this thread as a compliment to Pauls execellent letter in this weeks C & A and have had nothing but abuse from the yorkshire members, which i think is wrong, you should never try to belittle people or make them feel inadequate.

By the way Chris, Will mummy & daddy let their little trooper go to Stafford on his own this year as it would be really nice to see you there. :razz:

[laurab]

Hey Jimmy!

You leave our Chris alone, he's all grown up now and is going to Aberystwyth Uni!!!!

He is the intelligent member of the site ;-)


Elsa wants to know that if we go to Stafford, will you have plenty of change for the machines :shock:

[jimmy]

:razz: :razz: Elsa is always welcome to my change Laura as long as me & roger can sit and have a couple of drinks while she's winning our fortune :razz:

[PaulG]

Don't forget the "pink champagne ".....lol

[chris]

Hi Jimmy,

i went to stafford in march with paul earlier this year and somehow missed you, however all going well i'll be there again in october. this time my parents have no problems with me going as they've met paul, the only problem i might have will be my university time table. if mondays are free, or at least the mornings then i'll be fine to go back by train. otherwise i've got to pay for B&B so my brother can take me back and stay overnight, this wouldn't have been a problem if i could have had friends stay overnight in my room but it's not allowed and i'd get a fine if caught...

won't know that till saturday 23rd if i'm lucky, but could be the 28th when i actually start going to lectures

Chris

[jimmy]

hi Chris,

i'll make sure i catch with you this time.

Hope uni goes well mate and you get the results you want :wink:

[Waxbillman]

Chris

Jimmy is easily recognisable by his burberry cap and load mouthed Essex accent!! ;) :lol:

Matthew

[chris]

Hi Matt,

guess i'll be on chav watch then:lol:

[PAUL HEARN]

Hi Jimmy,

Thanks for the commment regarding the letter mate, you know me though, I just like to point out the true facts to sadly misinformed people.:lol:

What annoyed me the most was that this muppet included Dorset Birds in slagging off other dealers who haven't shown the hobby in it's best light in the past.:-x

Unfortunately C&A didn't print my comments in full regarding Mr Rattens attack on Mr Turner, I think Mr Ratten is living in a time warp and fails to see that if it wasn't for the dealers he despises so much, then the modern day National wouldn't have existed without the many £1000's from the dealers paying for their stands at the event going towards funding the show in the first place.:roll:

A show as huge as the National will never be seen in the UK again without the funding of the many dealers who have gone to the wall due to recent import bans of wild caught birds, maybe something near the size of the National can be staged in the future, but one thing is certain it will never be the same or as good!!

Anyway I've stepped off of my soapbox now mate, it would be great if you could put in an appearence more often geezer, we all miss the Kenny and Jimmy duo, as well as the man who is Jimmy in his own right.
Try not to be a stranger chappie and the light hearted abuse wont be such a shock to the system,:lol: the few of us going look foward to meeting with you at Stafford.

All the best, Paul.

[laurab]

I see that Diane's letter along with mine was in the paper this week - oh, and our Kenny was put in his place :shock: WE love you Ken :wink:

[kenny]

hi laura
good to see you and diane got your 2 pennyworth in ,and you got our website a mention........but you mispelled bbia so you will be in trouble there they will say you did it on purpose:razz: ,as far as me getting my bottom smacked i will still stand by what i said and i will send them a photo of my bottom so they can show him it ..well done laura .i see they also printed my story of roger the turkey....they are just not fast enough


ken

[laurab]

Hi Ken

I took the web address from off of the front page of Karl's site :confused: hey ho, I have broad shoulders :razz:

[PAUL HEARN]

Hello Diane and Laura,

I was very pleased to see your letter responses published after all,:grin: what was unfortunate was the fact that Kens response to another subject was taken the wrong way.:x

Ken, I'm pleased to read that your shoulders are broad enough to carry the comments against you, but I stand with you regarding the point of your comments matey.

Paul.;-)

[laurab]

Err.....I thought I was the one with broad shoulders!....Anyway, I have made my apologies in the right direction and they have been accepted :-D

[kenny]

hi laura
i sincerely apologise



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i was under the impression somehow that it was bbia in aviculture and then i realised that they were the initials

sorry
ken

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[jimmy]

Great letter Laura, good plug for the sites as well ;)

So Kenny boy, you got a whippin this week then mate :-P :-P

[laurab]

Apology accepted Ken:lol:

[kenny]

hi jimmy
yep i really enjoyed it and i cant wait for those n****e clamps to be attached i am a real glutton for punishment the harder the better.....you wait till my next letter goes in he is going to hate me big time

ken

[Diane]

I was pleased to see that C & A printed our letters - it will be interesting to see if Mr. Ratten responds.

[jimmy]

Calm down Kenny, calm down mate.

If i don't have a buyer for the boat from "Jaws" by the weekend, i'll come and pick you up in it and we can go a fishin :p

[kenny]

yep
i am deffo up for that,you can show the captain your scars and i will show him mine then we can all have a few clinkers:lol: :lol:


ken

[kenny]

hi diane
yes it will be nice to see if he replies but i bet he will have nothing to say now.


ken:wink:

[jimmy]

I AM THE CAPTAIN :cool:

[kenny]

well i aint gonna be the one that gets in the wire cage.i like fish but not big unshttp://bestsmileys.com/pirate/2.gif

[PAUL HEARN]

Hi Diane,

I think after the letters from yourself and Laura that the Ratten has gone to ground.:lol:

I reckon I read Mr Taylor wrong in his approach of publishing letters sent in by readers of Cage and Aviary, and I do apologise for this!:roll:

It seems that maybe Mr T had a game plan on this subject, and it seems to have gone to plan after all.:grin:

Many thanks Donald, and I hope you know we all love you really?:lol:

Paul.

[kenny]

hi all
well it looks like they have decided they have not got the nerve to print my letter...i have noticed that there is a lot more news this week in the c&a.....looks like you were right laura i have shot myself in the foot as they may just look in now as aguest and pinch all my posts on news ...oh well onwards and upwards..

ken8)

[laurab]

I told them not to print it Ken, I didn't want to loose you :lol:

[kenny]

i hope that is true laura as i only wrote the letter in a fit of pique,i was just annoyed at thier so called news.like the thing in todays with the wyvale centre stopping thier sale of birds,they are just giving the a r people more fodder they should not have printed that story at all its just an article about a victory for animal rights...there should be more bird related stuff that novices can also understand

ken

[laurab]

Of course its true Kenny, you are diamond and you know that diamonds are a girls best friend ;-)

[kenny]

thanks boss
but even if fleet street had wanted me i dont think i would have left this wonderful site...it has been like a second family to me;-)


ken

[kenny]

hi all
this is an update on the woodpeckers

Woodpeckers believed extinct may be in Fla.
By Kevin Lollar
The bird-watching world was crackling Tuesday with the news that a team of Auburn University scientists have evidence that ivory-billed woodpeckers live in swamps along the Choctawhatchee River in the Florida Panhandle.

Its range once spanned all or part of 14 states from Florida north to North Carolina and west to Texas, but the ivory-billed woodpecker has been considered extinct for more than 50 years.

Led by Geoff Hill, the Auburn team saw what they identified as ivory-billed woodpeckers 14 times beginning May 21, 2005, and heard sounds that matched descriptions of ivory-billed woodpecker sounds 41 times.

They also found large tree cavities, larger than those used by any other woodpecker species — ivory-bills are the largest woodpecker species in North America.

Plus, they uncovered evidence of distinctive ivory-bill feeding behavior described by Cornell University ornithologist James Tanner in the 1930s.
“In terms of the evidence, they have sightings that they think are reasonably good to pretty darn good,” said Karl Miller, of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and a member of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker Working Group.

Hearing sounds that match earlier descriptions of the bird’s calls is not definitive proof, Miller said.

“The only definitive proof would be a really good photograph or video,” he said. “Obviously, we don’t want to go out and shoot one of these birds.”

Ivory-billed woodpecker populations crashed mainly because of habitat loss. The species needs old-growth swampy bottomland hardwood forests.

Much of that habitat was logged in the early 20th century, and Tanner estimated that 22 to 24 birds remained in the U.S. by 1939.

In 1948, ornithologist John Dennis took the last scientifically accepted photographs of ivory-billed woodpeckers in Cuba.

A team of Cornell researchers shot video of what might be ivory-billed woodpeckers in 2004 along the Cashe River in Arkansas, but other experts said the tape is of a pileated woodpecker.

Florida’s Choctawhatchee River is a reasonable place for a population of ivory-billed woodpeckers to make a stand, Miller said.

“The remoteness of those swamp forests is a factor,” he said. “The Choctawhatchee is accessible only by water.

“This is an area that’s received very little attention as far as looking for ivory-billed woodpeckers. They might have slipped under the radar.”

They also might have slipped under the radar because of their resemblance to pileated woodpeckers, said Mike Owen, a biologist at Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve.

“Ivory-bills are a little bigger, but most people see a black-and-white woodpecker, and it’s all pileated to them,” Owen said. “So the ivory-bill might have been right under our noses and we really didn’t know it.”

Whether the Auburn sightings turn out to prove the existence of ivory-billed woodpeckers, Owen said, that possibility is exciting,

“It makes people say, ‘Wow, this thing refuses to die,’” Owen said. “It keeps conservation in the news, and anything that points toward conservation is a good thing.”

[kenny]

hi all
this is getting a bit to close to me..


Bird deaths concern
A BIRD parasite which has killed a number of garden birds in Ilkeston has sparked warnings from the RSPB about the best way to limit the illness.
The disease - caused by the Trichomonas parasite - mainly affects greenfinches, chaffinches and sparrows, but does not pose a threat to the health of humans, cats or dogs.

Birdwatcher Moira Barclay, of Shipley View Estate, alerted The Advertiser after she found seven dead birds in her back garden over the past few weeks and contacted the RSPB.

She said: "I have fed the birds for five years. I have told quite a few people who feed the birds to stop for a while.

"The RSPB tell people to take their feeders down and let the flocks disperse."

The disease started to be reported in finch species in gardens, in summer 2005.

RSPB wildlife advisor Kirsty Peck said: "There have been a lot of cases of Trichomonas in finches this year.

"Over the last few months we have had quite a lot of reports from the Derbyshire area. It's been quite a major feature of the bird calendar."

Birds with the disease show signs of general illness, such as lethargy and fluffed-up plumage.

Because the afflicted birds are unable to digest food, they regurgitate infected food and spread the illness.

Kirsty said: "People should be keeping good hygiene around bird feeders anyway and not allow uneaten food or droppings to accumulate.

"The best thing to do is spread the birds out and not bunch them so much while they're feeding."

The RSPB recommends that people keep an eye out for sign of the disease amongst birds that visit their gardens.

If they spot any symptoms they should stop feeding and let bird baths dry out for a couple of weeks.

For more advice e-mail the Wildlife Enquiries team at wildlife@rspb.org.uk ( wildlife@rspb.org.uk), or ring 01767 680551 - Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.15pm.

ken

[kenny]

hi all
this a great story with a good ending


TOP STORIEShttp://www.roxboro-courier.com/newsnowstories/imgs/060927Jaybird.jpg
(Photo submitted)
Dan Rinehart, reunited with his wandering Meyers parrot, J-Bird, thanks to resourcefulness of Steve and Sherry Carpenter.

J-Bird, the adventuring parrot,
back safe at home - 9/27/06



By VICKI BERRY, C-T Lifestyle EditorOn a Saturday morning in mid-August, Oxford Road resident Daniel Rinehart cleaned out the cage usually occupied by his pet parrot, J-Bird, and left it outdoors to air-dry. Nothing too unusual about the activity, until Rinehart opened the door to carry the sizeable cage back inside. At that same moment J-Bird decided to take flight and instead of settling on his favored perch — his owner’s shoulder — the bird started off on what would become a different kind of vacation for the parrot.
J-Bird has traveled all over the United States, his owner explained, but usually as a passenger sitting on the front seat or the steering wheel of an automobile. The bird had never tried solo travel, said Rinehart, at least not until that day back in August.
“It was just perfect timing on his part,” recalled Rinehart about the day J-Bird … well… flew the coop.
For the rest of that day, as well as the next several days, Rinehart searched the surrounding woods, whistling and calling for his best friend, which he has owned for six years and which typically follows him around like a little puppy dog.
Having no luck finding the bird, Rinehart became disheartened.
“J-Bird always answers my calls,” said Rhinehart, admitting that he began thinking the worst, fearing a vehicle on the heavily trafficked U.S. 158 had hit the bird.
“I left the cage outdoors for four days,” he said, explaining he thought that perhaps if the bird saw his house he might fly back into the familiar safe haven. But after several days and still no sign of his green-feathered friend, Rinehart said, he had “pretty much given up” any hope of ever seeing his beloved J-Bird again.
Meanwhile …
About three miles away, later on that same Saturday J-Bird took flight, Beth Farabaugh was outdoors and out of the corner of her eye, she caught the glimpse of a flying green streak.
Farabaugh recalled thinking at the time, “What in the world is that?” Once the parrot landed on her roof she wondered, “Where in the world did it come from?”
Farabaugh, with assistance from her father who stood on the porch banister, attempted to scoop the bird into a box only to have the parrot fly to the neighbor’s roof.
Then the wandering bird decided to attempt a landing on the slippery hood of Farabaugh’s father’s truck, not an ideal landing surface for a parrot.
“The bird kept slipping around and my dad slowly backed up to the bird and it just stepped onto his shoulder,” explained Farabaugh.
“We gave it some oats and water. It was drinking water, but we didn’t know what to do with it.”
Then Farabaugh remembered that one of her co-workers owns parrots and made a call for help to Steve and Sherry Carpenter.
The Carpenters lost no time coming to the aid of the little lost bird and promptly rode to the Allensville Road location with a cage to pick up the willful traveler and, hopefully, solve the mystery of the little lost bird by locating its owner.
“We looked over the bird and it was in good shape,” said Steve Carpenter, who is manager of Person County when he’s not out rescuing parrots. And once they realized the bird was banded, both Steve and Sherry admitted they thought it would be an easy course to locate the owner.
“We knew it was a Meyers parrot,” said Steve, describing it as a “pretty green bird with a black cape — not rare,” he said, “but not that common either; and they are prone to fly,” he added
“Sherry spent the night on the Internet,” said Steve, explaining she spent time e-mailing aviary veterinarians and contacting breeders throughout the state, since the Carpenters had no idea where the bird had come from or how far it had traveled.
She also contacted Person County veterinarians and even called 911. The following Monday she took the bird to the animal shelter to have it scanned for possible microchip identification.
The Carpenters even contacted seed places and pet stores in case the owner put up notices of the lost bird — all to no avail.
From the bird’s band number the Carpenters could tell the bird’s age and that the bird had been bred in North Carolina. There are about six to eight Meyers breeders including one in nearby Haw River, said Steve.
But when they contacted the branding company, which generally keeps track of breeders and birds through records coinciding with numbers on the band, the Carpenters learned the company was no longer in business. They were advised there was no way to assess the defunct company’s records.
The sleuths had reached a dead-end.
Without knowing the bird’s given name, Steve and Sherry began calling their guest “Doc,” after a local veterinarian.
Armed with experience and knowledge on how to care for parrots, the Carpenters integrated the little bird into their own household, while keeping their two jenday conures and umbrella cockatoo isolated from the newcomer.
And just in case Doc decided to again take flight, the Carpenters clipped their new houseguest’s wings to ensure that he stop his nomadic ways.
“We clipped him, and he gained altitude; and we clipped him again. He still could go the length of the house. These birds are notorious for flight,” emphasized Steve, referring to Meyers parrots.

After two weeks and seemingly no closer to finding the owner, the Carpenters decided to put a classified ad in the “Lost and Found” section of The Courier-Times. The ad came out in the next Saturday edition. Without identifying the bird, the ad requested that the owner identify the band number to verify ownership, explained Steve.
That Saturday, the Carpenters received a few calls offering to give the bird a home if the owner could not be found, but still no owner.
And then Sunday morning came a call from a gentleman who identified the bird, but admitted he hadn’t a clue to the band number. Instead, he offered to bring photographs for positive identification.
The Carpenters were comfortably sure it was caller’s bird.
Rinehart was trembling with anticipation when he arrived at the Carpenters’ home, explained Steve, and when the owner and bird re-united, the bird’s response immediately affirmed the bond and relationship.
“From the bird’s reaction, I knew this was definitely his bird,” said Sherry.
A happy ending for bird and owner and yet another missing bird case resolved thanks to the tenacity of the Carpenters, for which Daniel Rinehart is grateful. He also is appreciative of the care given to J-Bird by the Carpenters.
“They are super people,” said Rinehart.
Yet despite the very good care he enjoyed at the Carpenters, J-Bird seems to be happier still to be back home — clipped wings and all.


ken

[kenny]

hi all


Sheer bliss for rat ravaged bird

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42144000/jpg/_42144608_shearwater203nts.jpg Manx Shearwater chicks can fall prey to rats

A seabird has bred successfully on the Hebridean island of Canna for the first time in 10 years.
Manx shearwater numbers were decimated by brown rats which raided the birds' burrows and ate chicks.
However, a National Trust for Scotland (NTS) led programme to exterminate the rats has allowed the shearwaters to begin a recovery.
The Manx shearwater colony on Canna once had 1,500 pairs but suffered a drastic decline during the 1990s.
NTS said the first phase of the rat eradication programme, which was funded by the EU LIFE-Nature programme and Scottish Natural Heritage, took place last winter and killed almost all of the estimated 7,000 rats.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gifhttp://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/start_quote_rb.gif Attracting a nesting pair back to the island in the first year was beyond our wildest dreams http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/end_quote_rb.gif


NTS officer Richard Luxmoore


Richard Luxmoore, head of NTS nature conservation which owns and manages the island, said more shearwaters could be attracted to Canna.
He said: "We were confident that this project would be successful in the long-term because we expected shearwaters from the neighbouring island of Rum to recolonise the island.
"However, attracting a nesting pair back to the island in the first year was beyond our wildest dreams."
NTS said monitoring by wild bird organisation, Highland Ringing Group, has shown key bird species to be increasing in numbers.
Poisoned baits
Razorbills, which nest amongst boulders, have gone from 27 successful nests in 2005 to 273 in 2006.
A colony of shags have increased from 48 pairs last year to 72 pairs in 2006. Rare wood mice, taken off Canna to protect them from the poisoned baits used, have been returned to the island. The last known rat was detected and poisoned in mid-February.


ken

[John Wrenne]

Why would JW hate you:?:

hi mate
i am not going on now as you will make j w hate me and i could not stand it!

ken


p.s. i have to have something to help my sausages!

[kenny]

hi jw
long time no see ..it was a joke that we shared quite a long time a go as it was about bbia and no offence was meant to any party when it was written as it is something we pride ourselves on ,on this site we do not have to resort to name calling to score points against each other

ken

[John Wrenne]

no problems I was wondering was I missing something here also, good to know that my name will be safe here, by the way I don't really hate many people:roll: it will take me ages to get about the fite and past posts but I will continue to seak and find.I like my avatar by the way very nice. Diod you hear I lost all my birds Christmas morning well I came home from hospital late Christmas eve and went to the shed at 10-30 Christmas and you can imagine the shock I got when I saw all my 161 finches, Norwich, Phil Warns Borders all dead in there flight what a disaster, I could well have taken another heart attack but for some reason I was calm. Thank god.

[kenny]

hi jw
i heard about that when you where on one of the other sites!i am afraid it would have done my head in if it had happened to me what exactly was it that caused the loss of your birds




ken